Resources Tagged: Agroforestry

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  1. Coppicing Woodlots

    2010-04-01 Jean Remy Azor owns and manages his own “ti fore” (little forest) in Haiti. He started it in 1984 and has not had to replant it since. He tells of his experiences with it.
    Woodland Management Coppicing Agroforestry Haiti Latin America and ...

  2. Nematodes in Agroforestry

    1994-10-19 Information about nematodes affecting agroforestry trees. Nematodes are tiny “wire worms” that abound in the soil. The root-knot nematode,Meloidogyne incognita, is one of the most infamous, both for its devastating effect on crops and the ease with which its presence can be identified. The...
    Agroforestry Legume Nematodes

  3. Alley Cropping Revisited

    2004-07-01 Alley cropping was not intended to be a way to increase yields/acre. The purpose was to shorten or eliminate fallow periods.
    Alley Cropping Agroforestry

  4. Insights From A Biogas Project

    1996-07-19 Comments regarding biogas in Indonesia.
    Agroforestry Fuel Biogas

  5. A Positive Experience With Eucalyptus

    1997-04-19 Information about reforesting extremely eroded mountain soil with eucalyptus, a tree that is often maligned by farmers and development workers because of its supposed competition for water with food crops.
    Agroforestry Forestry Eucalyptus

  6. Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration

    1997-11-19 One of the immediate problems directly affecting agricultural output and quality of life in Niger is the severe deforestation which has occurred, particularly since the 1960’s. Simply planting more trees does not solve the problems. Farmer Managed Natural Regeneration is a practice that protects...
    Agroforestry Rural Development FMNR Natural Regeneration Dryland Farming Semi-arid

  7. KX2 'Ohana': A Forage Leueceana

    1997-07-19 The KX2 ‘Ohana’ leucaena is an interspecific cross ofLeucaena pallidaK636 andLeucaena leucocephalaK8 developed by the Hawaii Agriculture Research Centre (HARC) for resistance to the psyllid insect which has hurt leucaena production in many regions of the world.
    Crop Pests Agroforestry Leucaena

  8. Mulch or trees in the Sahel

    1998-12-19 Trees can be an effective source of mulch in drylands.
    Dryland Farming Agroforestry Mulch

  9. Paper Mulberry

    2016-10-18 Paper mulberry is native to China, Japan, Korea, Laos, Cambodia, Thailand, Burma and Assam (India), but cultivated extensively elsewhere in Asia and the Pacific. It has also naturalized in parts of southern Europe and the USA (Kew 2016). According to the World Agroforestry Centre, paper mulberry...
    Mulberry Forages Medicinal Plants Agroforestry Agroforestry Trees...

  10. Animals & Trees for a Better Crop - Video

    Access Agriculture Training Video In semi-arid West Africa, farmers and herders explain why and how trees and livestock play a crucial role in obtaining a productive soil and crop. In Niger and Ghana this is one of the strategies of integrated striga and soil fertility management that has a...
    Livestock Development Integrated Crops West Africa East Africa Sustainable Land M... AccessAgriculture Livestock Agroforestry Soil Health East Africa West Africa